Here’s an uninspired prediction: A church will copy Next’s approach of constant identity shifting. Imagine, a church operates as a typical seeker-sensitive mega-church for three months. The next week, instead of exposed ductwork and video screens, the congregation finds a high-church sanctuary, complete with an altar, vestments, candles, incense, liturgy, and choir. Three months later,... Continue Reading

The biblical statement [in Genesis 2:7] leaves no room for God’s adopting some already living being, because the Hebrew does not allow for that interpretation.  Even though there is a degree of latitude in how we interpret the detail of the early chapters of Genesis in relation to the age of the earth and the... Continue Reading

Both sides sought to carve out space between what they saw were two species of perfectionism, revivalism and social gospel. For Cornelius Van Til and Gordon Clark, revivalism was fundamentalism and social gospel was liberalism. While Clark and Van Til did not think Reinhold Niebuhr’s German Reformed tradition was the solution, for his part, Niebuhr... Continue Reading

So absent mass conversion by Protestants and Evangelicals to Catholicism, traditional Calvinists, with their own venerable traditions of social engagement in the sin-soaked kingdom of man, will have to point the way forward. Troublingly, many Calvinists are instead succumbing to their own funk, partly based on their own unconscious perfectionism, disowning social engagement, especially statecraft,... Continue Reading

This serves as a reminder to us that God achieves His ends in ways different from the way we might map it out.  But it also reminds us that God acted in answer to prayer.  David’s prayer and God’s actions in response to it are conspicuous in the account, part of the discourse of history... Continue Reading

I think even among theologically conservative Christians, the priority of regular personal worship is not well understood. A recent national survey found that while 56 percent of Americans believe the Bible to be “the actual or inspired word of God,” only 37 percent read it at least once a week. And deliberate daily times of... Continue Reading

Answers 11 and 12 are highly presumptuous. Is Meadows clairvoyant? How else can he know how bad a wife a woman is in her marriage? How can he know how good a husband that woman’s husband is? This is pride and presumption of the highest order. Furthermore, by telling wives that they should remind themselves... Continue Reading

What does this mean? It means that these Leftist groups are pursuing a zero-sum strategy against religious groups and individuals. They have declared an all-out culture war and will offer no quarter to sincere religious dissenters. They are ready to use the coercive power of the state to trample the religious consciences of their countrymen.... Continue Reading

We have a lot to say to the hoarders and spenders among us, but let’s remember money can seduce even the savers, those with the tightest fists and strictest budgets. A cheap lifestyle might be free from lots of things, but spending less is no guarantee of freedom from the love of money.    The... Continue Reading

Because my parents never forced me to, I never considered if some of the things that I enjoyed were “boy” things or “girl” things,  I was just me.  When we begin to tell boys that they must act “this” way, and that girls should act “that” way, and that if they don’t, they are transgender;... Continue Reading